microapple200 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Hello everybody, I want to share with you my experience about Mac os, first of all I am a student of programming and next year will be my last year in the license, So we should make a project and everybody hear usually make an android application so i want to make something different, so I start thinking about make an Ios application and after that make the same application on android like that I can have an idea about the most popular mobile platform, so I tried to install mac os lion but unfortunately I couldn't do that on vmware or with windows 7 with dual boot , because I had a core 2 dio without VT support , so I was obliged to buy a new pc, why i didn't buy a mac if I want to develop with ios , first of all it's expensive and I am ok with pc , so I bought a Dell i7 2670QM 8GO RAM nVidia gt 525M 1go Iam connected with wireless connection, so then I can install the mac os on my new Dell which is running on Windows 7 64bits , so I downloaded Mac OS X Mountain Lion FINAL build 12A269 PRE-Installed VMware image for Windows PC created by mahmood1, everything is fine and now the mac os boot is ok but I have some problems , I can't copy/ past drag/drop files between Windows seven and mac os I tried to mount the darwin.iso from a downloaded vmware fusion 4.1.3(last version) and tried to install the vmware tools of mac os , but it doesn't work for me, even i tried other version of darwin.iso but i think it should not work because it's created to make a relation between mac os host and other mac os guest , correct me if I am wrong , please I need the advise of the people who have an experience in mac os and visualization , because it's very important for , Image that I choose to make an application for iso and after that I face a problem without solution and I loose the year ! because I will not sucseed ! so please share with me your experience and advise , I am really new in mac os , so I have a lot of questions and hope that I am in the rigth place if not please tell me where to post this message to have some help and thank you in advance , so please here is some questions : * can I develop an IOs application on my dell Dell i7 2670QM 8GO RAM nVidia gt 525M 1go with vmware that can run on Iphone without problem , if yes how? * can I develop an IOs application on my dell Dell i7 2670QM 8GO RAM nVidia gt 525M 1go with dual boot that can run on Iphone without problem , if I can how ? ad will the usb , sound , wireless , devices ? work ? * which is the easier ? and the best ? * which version of Xcode I should install ? * why there a lot of updates of xcode ? * why the code change with the new versions of Xcode and then the books and tutos will be out of date quickly ? * how to share files copy/paste drag/drop between host Windows7 and guest mac os montain lion ? * can I improve the quality of sound ? it not can that be a problem in Ios development ? * can I make the updates with mac os on vmware or in dual boot if it will be available ? * what the problem that i can face in ios development with mac os on vmware or dual boot ? * why in Safari sometime I can't select the text ? but sometimes i can selected the same text that didn't work before ? please take your time to help me, and this topic for sure will help a lot of people who want to start develop ios application and who want to install the mac os , please share your precious experience of years with mac os and pc , thank you in advance I am really lost and according to your answers i will choose if I will develop an ios in my prject in the university or not , hope that I can because I bought that new pc to make that ? I figured out that I could bypass the VT problem ? anyway I have a new pc... Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Hello everybody, I want to share with you my experience about Mac os, first of all I am a student of programming and next year will be my last year in the license, So we should make a project and everybody hear usually make an android application so i want to make something different, so I start thinking about make an Ios application and after that make the same application on android like that I can have an idea about the most popular mobile platform, so I tried to install mac os lion but unfortunately I couldn't do that on vmware or with windows 7 with dual boot , because I had a core 2 dio without VT support , so I was obliged to buy a new pc, why i didn't buy a mac if I want to develop with ios , first of all it's expensive and I am ok with pc , so I bought a Dell i7 2670QM 8GO RAM nVidia gt 525M 1go Iam connected with wireless connection, so then I can install the mac os on my new Dell which is running on Windows 7 64bits , so I downloaded Mac OS X Mountain Lion FINAL build 12A269 PRE-Installed VMware image for Windows PC created by mahmood1, everything is fine and now the mac os boot is ok but I have some problems , I can't copy/ past drag/drop files between Windows seven and mac os I tried to mount the darwin.iso from a downloaded vmware fusion 4.1.3(last version) and tried to install the vmware tools of mac os , but it doesn't work for me, even i tried other version of darwin.iso but i think it should not work because it's created to make a relation between mac os host and other mac os guest , correct me if I am wrong , please I need the advise of the people who have an experience in mac os and visualization , because it's very important for , Image that I choose to make an application for iso and after that I face a problem without solution and I loose the year ! because I will not sucseed ! so please share with me your experience and advise , I am really new in mac os , so I have a lot of questions and hope that I am in the rigth place if not please tell me where to post this message to have some help and thank you in advance , so please here is some questions : * can I develop an IOs application on my dell Dell i7 2670QM 8GO RAM nVidia gt 525M 1go with vmware that can run on Iphone without problem , if yes how? * can I develop an IOs application on my dell Dell i7 2670QM 8GO RAM nVidia gt 525M 1go with dual boot that can run on Iphone without problem , if I can how ? ad will the usb , sound , wireless , devices ? work ? * which is the easier ? and the best ? * which version of Xcode I should install ? * why there a lot of updates of xcode ? * why the code change with the new versions of Xcode and then the books and tutos will be out of date quickly ? * how to share files copy/paste drag/drop between host Windows7 and guest mac os montain lion ? * can I improve the quality of sound ? it not can that be a problem in Ios development ? * can I make the updates with mac os on vmware or in dual boot if it will be available ? * what the problem that i can face in ios development with mac os on vmware or dual boot ? * why in Safari sometime I can't select the text ? but sometimes i can selected the same text that didn't work before ? please take your time to help me, and this topic for sure will help a lot of people who want to start develop ios application and who want to install the mac os , please share your precious experience of years with mac os and pc , thank you in advance I am really lost and according to your answers i will choose if I will develop an ios in my prject in the university or not , hope that I can because I bought that new pc to make that ? I figured out that I could bypass the VT problem ? anyway I have a new pc... Thank you Currently I am doing the development work on a virtual Mac OSX lion , on i3 processor with 4 GB RAM. Definitely, the copy and paste will not work always. You can do full development and test it on any iOS device. Sound will not work , may work. Rest everything works all great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microapple200 Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 thank you for your answer waiting for the advices of other developers ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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